Exploring

The past few days have been mostly spent exploring our new surroundings. I was excited to find a PC room on the second floor of our apartment building, a fitness club in the next building and an Imsil Pizza place (good pizza, even with the corn niblets) about a block away. We found an E-Mart (huge department store) about a half hour walk away from our place last night, which is where we'll likely do any major shopping. I was excited to find that they have some brown bread so we bought a toaster there last night. We didn't get a few things on our shopping list after we found out prices....eg. fork, knife and spoon for ~$5 and a tin of coffee for ~$20. Unfortunately we forgot to look for baking soda to put in our fridge. When we open our fridge the whole apartment fills with the smell of kimchi.

On Friday we met my employer, which went well, then on Saturday we bought teaching materials for my classes. I am teaching at a new school so for now, I don't have a lot of classes but they are spread out through the week and some days I have long breaks between classes. The school is brand new and looks great. I was told by the head teacher that the school was designed by the owner...it is very bright with lots of windows and wood trim. The atmosphere is great, I get my own desk and there will be rice and kimchi for me at work so I don't have to leave for dinner.

For now my schedule goes from around 3 PM to 10 PM but since next week will be the first week, I expect that could change. I'm nervous about starting on Monday as the employer has made it known several times that he has high expectations. I'm sure everything will work out but for now I feel like I'm under a microscope.